Intro: A E F#m D E
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Jenny left from Idaho and made her home in Capitol Hill
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In a 300 square foot studio above a coffee shop near the Broadway Grill
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And every night she walks the block to trade in her time for cheap thrills
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And everyone she meets is cool, but just out of reach and it kills
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She used to spend her nights by firelight and singing to the stars
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Now shes ours
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Kevin left from Denver where the air is clear and people are nice
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And he traded it for sea level, for misty rain, what a bitter compromise
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For now he felt like he belonged to those who understood him
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But he sold his soul to fit right in and he watched his friends desert him
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He used to spend his nights by candlelight and drinking wine to vinyl
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Now hes ours
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Its a city of orphans
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Who had nowhere to go
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So they cashed in their dreams
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Headed northwest to the sea and they called it their home
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But most dont belong here
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Were all running away
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And well drain you dry of all semblance of life
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We dont give we just take, take, take
Bridge:
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But this city has no Bible
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Theres no meaning you can use
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Were all desperately searching for truth
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Were a city of orphans
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Who had nowhere to go
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So we cashed in our dreams, filled our glasses with Beam
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and our bodies with smoke
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and we spend every weeknight
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trading pints at the Streamline
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and we talk about truth and we talk about love but we wake up to lies, lies, lies
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its a city of orphans
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where did our fathers go
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we stumble around in the bad part of town at the end of our rope
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but there are no answers
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on the tables of oak
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if God could just hear us
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we think that Hes near, but He left long ago
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were a city of orphans
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what do we do to ourselves?
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We take all the good and the heaven around us and turn it to hell
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We take all the good and the heaven around us and turn it to hell
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We take all the good and the heaven around us and turn it to hell
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Jenny left from Idaho and made her home in Capitol Hill